See, what I don’t understand, on a slight tangent, is why do they almost always kill CHILDREN..?
I realize that they are easy targets - fine. I hated school, too. I understand that severe trauma, at school, will make you utterly despise the institution, and all involved…
But how do you go from that to “I will go and shoot these primary-aged children who had nothing to do with what happened to me”, but who just happened to be studying there at the time…
Even understanding this as an act of both insanity and pure evil, I really can’t understand the “logic” of going for this outcome, instead of, say, more directly blaming people who had greater “involvement”…
Just my thoughts, each fucking time this happens, at a school, around the world…
I have a couple of ideas for that.
One, kids can't fight back easily. Schools are a very easy target if nobody else is likely to be armed.
Two, it scars the community that the perpetrator might feel has wronged it. In this case, it was a private school, so kids there had parents who were part of this hated community.
But how do you go from that to “I will go and shoot these primary-aged children who had nothing to do with what happened to me”, but who just happened to be studying there at the time…
It's easy to explain. They're very soft targets, as you said. Also, it's more shocking to people than when you murder adults. If you want to make a statement, and terrorists do, then you would murder kids. If 6 had been shot at a mall, people would not be talking about it days after.
See, what I don’t understand, on a slight tangent, is why do they almost always kill CHILDREN..?
I realize that they are easy targets - fine. I hated school, too. I understand that severe trauma, at school, will make you utterly despise the institution, and all involved…
But how do you go from that to “I will go and shoot these primary-aged children who had nothing to do with what happened to me”, but who just happened to be studying there at the time…
Even understanding this as an act of both insanity and pure evil, I really can’t understand the “logic” of going for this outcome, instead of, say, more directly blaming people who had greater “involvement”…
Just my thoughts, each fucking time this happens, at a school, around the world…
Fucking yuck.
I have a couple of ideas for that.
One, kids can't fight back easily. Schools are a very easy target if nobody else is likely to be armed.
Two, it scars the community that the perpetrator might feel has wronged it. In this case, it was a private school, so kids there had parents who were part of this hated community.
Because they're vulnerable because people care about kids
Ah, you said the same thing I did but far more concisely.
In China guns are banned and yet knife attacks against children are very common.
The motive is because of a combination of them being easy targets & it causing the maximum pain to "society" that these people hate.
It's easy to explain. They're very soft targets, as you said. Also, it's more shocking to people than when you murder adults. If you want to make a statement, and terrorists do, then you would murder kids. If 6 had been shot at a mall, people would not be talking about it days after.
Jealousy, because they are still innocent and untainted.